Improvement in carriage-clips



e. F. SMITH, CARRIAGE-CUR. No.186,502. l at ented Jan.23,1877

N.FETERS. PNOTD-LQYHOGRAFNER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIOE,

H. D. SMITH & 00.,

OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-CLIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 186,502, dated January 23, 1877; application filed October 9, 1876.

To all whom it may concern;-

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. SMITH, of Plantsville, in the county of Hartfordand State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Carriage-Clips; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon,

'to'be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a side view of the clip complete; Fig. 2, aside view of the blank preparatory to bending.

This invention relates to an improvement in what are known to the trade as carriageclips, with special reference to'those constructed for Gothic-shaped axlesthat is to say, axles which terminate in a sharp angle at the center upon the upper side; the object ner, and its outline may be of usual form; but upon the upper side, and equidistant from the center, projections 12 11 are formed, the distance from each other equal to the plain surface required on the top of the clip, and between these two'points b b the surface is curved downward or depressed, as clearly seen in Fig. 2, so that the thickness of the center is less, or no more, than the body of the clip. Preferably a depression, a, is formed upon the under side, centrally between the saidtwo projections b b, when the Gothic shape is required. 7

The clip thus constructed is ready for market, and when applied'to the axle is bent into the shape required, as seen in Fig. l, the depression a upon the under side preserving the sharp bend required, while the bending will throw upward the curved surface be tweenthe two projections 12 b, those. projec-- tions forming the angles, as seen in Fig. 1,

and leaving the space between flat.

I claim- As an article of manufacture, the hereindescribed carriage-clip, having the projections b 11 upon the upper side equidistant from the center, and with a depressed space between, substantially as specified.

, GEO. F. SMITH.

Witnesses:

SIMECN H. NORTON, E. E. PADDOGK. 

